Chesterfield District — Current theme: Learning and Language

Since 1951, the census has gathered information on what point in the education system
individuals reached:
did they leave school as soon as was legal, without qualifications?
did they get GCSEs?
and did they go to university and get a degree?
In general, this information covers everyone of working age, so it has to be
seen as an 'average' of decisions to stay on at school or leave taken during
the forty or fifty years prior to the census.

Unfortunately, the variation in what was reported by different censuses means
none of our measures can be presented for every census, and also that the
precise definitions of measures vary from census to census, so precise rates
cannot generally be compared over time, only relative positions.

We hold these detailed statistics for Chesterfield, which we graph
and tabulate here: